These words in the psalm about the glory of man, i.e., Adam and Eve and their descendants, will be explained by the author in Hebrews 2:9 as pertaining to Jesus. That should not tempt us to apply this to him already in verses 6–8 (as Grässer does1). Otherwise the text and interpretation become confused. Only in verse 9 is Psalm 8 focused on Jesus, while in verses 6–8 it is about man: before the fall everything was subject to Adam and Eve. It is first and foremost a word with an anthropological charge (the human being in God’s world) that will later be given a Christological meaning (S. Kistemaker,2 C. Blomberg3).4
6 It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?